Exclusion and inclusion in peer groups

The construction of exclusionary acts by hearing and deaf youth

Authors

  • Sara Goico UCLA, Center for Language Interaction and Culture
  • M H Goodwin UCLA Anthropology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.23997

Keywords:

embodied interaction, multimodality, teasing, bullying, deaf

Abstract

We consider practices of exclusion and ridicule in peer groups in two distinct cultural contexts and with participants with distinct sensory access to the world. First, we consider exclusionary acts in a multiethnic girls’ peer group spanning fourth- to sixth-graders in a progressive Southern California school in the United States. We then consider interactions in a peer group consisting of deaf and hearing peers in a fourth-grade classroom in Iquitos, Peru. Our work uses ethnographic fieldwork, including videotaping, to make available the moment-by-moment interactive processes through which exclusion and ridicule are accomplished. This research also constitutes one of very few comparative studies of exclusionary practices, making comparisons across cultural contexts with respect to sensorial access to the world.

Author Biographies

  • Sara Goico, UCLA, Center for Language Interaction and Culture

    Sara Alida Goico’s research focuses on the communication of deaf children who have minimal access to signed or spoken languages, utilizing a linguistic ethnographic approach that combines participant observation and video recordings of everyday interaction. She is committed to bringing academic research into conversation with social justice-oriented work to improve language and educational access for deaf children. She facilitated the formation of a parents’ association and deaf school in Peru. She now works as a parent–infant teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing in the Los Angeles Unified School District birth to three program, along with holding an assistant project scientist position at UCLA’s Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture.

  • M H Goodwin, UCLA Anthropology

    Marjorie Harness Goodwin, distinguished research professor of anthropology at UCLA, is a linguistic anthropologist concerned with the embodied language practices humans utilize to construct the social, cultural, and cognitive worlds they inhabit. She combines ethnography with multimodal conversation analysis to examine social life in children’s peer groups, families, and workplace settings. Her more recent works deals with how forms of sociality involving intimacy are achieved through a range of coordinated, mutually elaborating modalities, including language, touch, and prosody. Works include He-Said-She-Said, The Hidden Life of Girls and Embodied Family Choreography (with Asta Cekaite). 

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2023-02-23

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Special Issue: Children’s Inclusion and Exclusion - Part 2

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Goico, S., & Goodwin, M. H. (2023). Exclusion and inclusion in peer groups: The construction of exclusionary acts by hearing and deaf youth. Research on Children and Social Interaction, 6(2), 267–299. https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.23997